As a programmer, you always run into situations where you need to process raw text into usable data. If you're a regex genius, or have a lot of free time, you can always write code to handle this. Or you can quickly get results with NimbleText.
It has about a 5 minute learning curve, and for me, "it just works". Highly recommended.
Yet another jewel I first read about on Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows.